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Plagiarism: What Every Student Needs to Know

Use Information Effectively

One of the most important concepts for students to learn and apply in academic work is how to use information correctly and ethically. In most cases, failure to use information properly results in plagiarism, a serious academic issue that can have dire consequences.

Do you understand the rules you must follow in order to avoid plagiarism? These four modules will get you started.

Avoiding Plagiarism

IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.